Release notes for 1.4.0

Container images

docker.io/scylladb/scylla-operator:1.4.0

Changes By Kind (since 1.3.0)

API Change

• Extend RackStatus API with UpdatedMembers and Stale fields (#684,@tnozicka)
• Add support for manually triggering ScyllaCluster rollout (#674,@tnozicka)

Feature

• Add e2e for scaling a ScyllaCluster (#632,@tnozicka)
• Add e2e test for automatic orphaned volume cleanup (#634,@tnozicka)
• Add informers, listers, full ScyllaCluster reconciliation, typed clients and much more (#534,@tnozicka)
• Set overpovisioned parameter when Scylla Pod QoS is not Guaranteed (#661,@zimnx)
• Explicitly set helper containers resources limits (#662,@zimnx)
• Support observedGeneration API concept (#668,@tnozicka)
• Implement seedless mode (#597,@zimnx)
• Use exponential backoff in OrphanedPV controller (#691,@tnozicka)

Bug

• Use dedicated raid device in GKE example to avoid conflicts (#650,@tnozicka)
• Force fixed names and namespaces for system components in helm (#667,@tnozicka)
• Fix operator upgrade bugs (#673,@tnozicka)
• Remove the PVC when the service is decommissioned (#671,@tnozicka)
• Fix controller leader election lock names (#683,@zimnx)
• Fix scylla manager DNS name in the URL (#666,@tnozicka)
• Group artificial delays supplying expectations (#685,@tnozicka)
• Make node replacement less likely to hit StatefulSet bug (#697,@tnozicka)
• Fix error handling when making racks and report an event (#699,@tnozicka)
• Keep the seed node label for N-1 compatibility (#705,@tnozicka)
• Temporarily force deletion of pods when replacing nodes (#734,@tnozicka)

Documentation

• Enable builiding docs for 1.3 (#619,@zimnx)
• Disable deprecated auth in GKE example (#628,@zimnx)
• Add upgrade guide for 1.3 (#644,@zimnx)
• Fix docs about GKE script parameters and Helm example resources listsing (#647,@zimnx)
• Mark v1.3 docs as latests stable and set release date for v1.4 (#649,@zimnx)
• Explicitly set gcloud project in GKE example commands (#640,@zimnx)
• Document operator support matrix (#656,@tnozicka)
• Fix broken references in node operations documentation (#659,@dgarcia360)
• Claim kube version >= 1.19.10 (#664,@tnozicka)
• Hide master from documentation version dropdown (#655,@dgarcia360)
• Add cluster delete instructions and reference to generic in gke docs (#693,@rzetelskik)
• Remove seed node replacement instructions from documentation (#728,@rzetelskik)
• Fix namespace names in docs (#731,@tnozicka)

Flaky/Failing Test

• Wait for cert-manager webhook CA (#627,@tnozicka)
• Collect logs only for running containers (#689,@tnozicka)
• Raise manager e2e timeout (#708,@tnozicka)

Other

• Collect KAS audit logs and API call stats in e2e tests (#623,@tnozicka)
• Collect rotated KAS audit logs (#629,@tnozicka)
• Raise e2e timeout (#635,@tnozicka)
• Fix GH action to work with new minikube 1.22.0 (#681,@tnozicka)
• Fix e2e flake retry for promotion jobs (#690,@tnozicka)
• Fix date ranges for listing PRs in gen-release-notes (#706,@tnozicka)
• Automatically publish release notes when a tag is created (#707,@tnozicka)
• Initialize v1.4 branch (#709,@tnozicka)